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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 616

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

525 PM CDT Sat Aug 24 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Far eastern Colorado

  Western and central Kansas

  Southwest Nebraska



* Effective this Saturday afternoon from 525 PM until Midnight

  CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A couple tornadoes possible

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2.5

    inches in diameter likely

  Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts

    to 75 mph possible



SUMMARY...Severe thunderstorms are expected to develop and increase

initially across southwest Nebraska, northwest Kansas, and also

southwest Kansas through early evening. Supercells capable of very

large hail can be expected. The possibility of a couple of tornadoes

will also increase through the early/mid-evening hours, particularly

across a broad part of western toward north-central Kansas. Damaging

winds will also be an increasing concern later this evening as an

organized thunderstorm cluster likely evolves and spreads

southeastward across northwest/central Kansas.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 110 statute miles

north and south of a line from 20 miles south of Burlington CO to 30

miles southeast of Russell KS. For a complete depiction of the watch

see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU6).



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



REMEMBER...A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for

tornadoes and severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch

area. Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for

threatening weather conditions and listen for later statements

and possible warnings.



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AVIATION...Tornadoes and a few severe thunderstorms with hail

surface and aloft to 2.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind

gusts to 65 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean

storm motion vector 32020.



...Guyer

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